Just before Christmas I found out that I would be featured in Outdoor Photography magazine. It was a great way to end 2017 and the March edition of the magazine has just been published today (8th of February 2018). OP chose to feature a photo of Loch Earn with Rob Mullholland’s ‘Still’ sculpture, a photo…

One recurring theme I’ve noticed with a lot of photographers is the tendency to doubt ourselves. In photography there are many different ways to do any particular thing and it’s easy to look at how others do it – their style, their use of light, the way they engage the subject, their post processing –…

Picture the scene: you have a photo in mind, you do all the neccesary homework about the location, the sunrise / sunset times, you get up early, put on all the proper outdoor gear with all the right kit, you get there in plenty of time and just when you’re about to put it all…

Using flash in our photography opens up a whole new world of possibilities and can help you take your portraits from this to this (see below). Flash is used widely in many fields of photography and speedlights are a good entry into this world. A speedlight is a small, portable flash which fits into the…

When I visited New York City in June of 2014 I arranged a photoshoot with 3 ballet dancers. We shot in Brooklyn at dusk with the Manhattan skyline as the backdrop and, suffice to say, it was a memorable shoot. One of the biggest takeaways for me was that I wanted to work with dancers…